We’re told to care, we’re told to pay, we’re told to buy the right equipment and players, and still.. movies aren’t getting any better.

]]>By: MarkHBhttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334869
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334869I’ve just hugged my Dell 30″ and told it I love it very much. I have also petted all my PCs and told them they’re good girls, and that despite the Amiga 4000 that sneers at them from the end desk, that I love them.

Have you cuddled a quad-core today?

]]>By: failixhttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-335134
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-335134Some people here don’t seem to realize that it’s not about MAC vs PC, it’s all about OpenSource vs proprietary source! And don’t tell me stuff like “oh but linux is so hard and complicated and you need to be a complete geek to understand it etc…”.
It’s simply not true anymore, the ninetees are over! Linux (or FreeBSD and others) brings three major advantages: constant evolution, constant freedom, and you actually control your own hardware and software… not the other way around.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-335648
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-335648All this will do is promote piracy. These companies are full of idiots.
]]>By: tehownthttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334885
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334885I’m surprised nobody mentionned this yet, but this is where you really see the advantage of running an open source OS, where the HDCP requirements that the OS has to implement can be removed anytime by anyone, thus protecting your fullly programable computer from becoming a scripted recording industry end-user media-playing device.

This might sound a bit extreme, but as always with technology:
Either you control it and decide what it can do or others will decide what you can do with it.

]]>By: kobrakaihttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334887
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334887Score one more for the pirates
]]>By: Darran Edmundsonhttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334888
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334888@ #6 teknokracy wrote, “And, when is the last time any of you bought a Mac which didn’t have a built in display?”

We’re about to purchase 7 MacPros to drive 14 52″ NEC monitors. Do we need to be concerned that the Quicktime libraries might refuse to play our HD content (films that we’ve commissioned and own the copyright on)?

]]>By: jolonhttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334889
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334889News like this will help PirateBay in their quest for a world record, so maybe Apple just has a soft spot for Swedes.

]]>By: Andrew Whttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334900
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334900What all you guys saying “move to linux” are missing is that these requirements are part of a process that leads to all software or hardware that can copy things or display things needing to be blessed by some governmental body. Linux is already on unsteady footing under many copyright laws (such as the DMCA). Responding to these things by moving to linux will make you a criminal, if it doesn’t already.

Besides: how do you legitimately get high-def content onto your linux box? Can’t rip the disc without circumventing copy protection. No online stores will sell it to you, or have clients that run under linux. Congrats — I mean YARR — you’re already a pirate.

]]>By: Zachttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334904
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334904If you think this is a ridiculously bad business choice on Apple’s part then you need to let them know. Apple has always been fairly responsible when it comes to DRM, but this is completely unacceptable. They are putting their customers second to Big Content, and the only way they’ll stop is if we let them know how bad a decision it was for them.

A couple years ago I bought an HP HD-DVD Media Center PC. It came with a wonderful 24″ widescreen monitor with more than 1080 resolution. It even came with an HD movie.

I’ve never been able to watch that movie – the monitor didn’t support HDCP. At least the video cards supports it; it turns out that many of the video cards sold as HDCP compliant are not.

The DRM won’t let me transfer to movie to another format in the event that HD-DVD was no longer supported. But that would never happen, would it?

HDCP is a monument to the saying that nothing is illegal if 50 business people agree on it.

]]>By: KeithIrwinhttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334940
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334940Darran, that’s a very good question to ask. However, you should probably ask Apple rather than us. I know about as much about HDCP as anyone, but I can’t answer that question. It’s really up to the particular’s of Apple’s software choices.
]]>By: Frank Whttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334942
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334942This will last as long as it will take some fourteen-year-old unsung hero to come up with a fix. Say, a week?
]]>By: Roger Stronghttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-335222
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-335222For those saying that they’ll simply avoid DRM and systems using it, a quote by Leon Trotsky comes to mind; “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”

While it’s currently possible rip a Blu-Ray disk, it’s undeniably far harder then it was with DVDs. The DRM side is learning too. And they can revoke the crypto keys for current hardware and software when something more secure is released.

No doubt this can be used to protect ebooks too, with an HDCP-compliant display required.

The recording industry has already lobbied to have music players support *only* DRM’d formats. With video having standardized on one DRM scheme (AACS/HDCP), and with that scheme now supported by Apple and iTunes, taking away the non-DRM option for the average person is a lot closer to reality for video.

]]>By: a_userhttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334967
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334967man you gotta love the whole PC vs Mac thing right? Would you give credence to anyone who would try to face off any 4 wheel passenger vehicle with a proprietary brand of 4 wheel passenger vehicle based on the biggest number of whatever they can produce?

As to the DRM thing what do you all think the push for new video formats was all about? This is where the industry is headed – they can’t control what happens to the media so they bottle neck the hardware then use legal pressure to force everyone to conform to its use.

It’s pretty similar to 19th century anti-poaching laws in the UK which allowed land owners to kill or maim anyone trespassing on their land.

]]>By: Bloodboilerhttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-335225
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-335225Nice way to increase monitor sales. If this wasn’t about making monitors obsolete faster, there would be a way to upgrade the monitor firmware every time DRM gets messed with. But if that was possible, someone would hack the firmware to accept everything.
]]>By: jeshiihttp://boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html#comment-334971
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-334971But this only applies to playing the DRM’d files from the iTunes store, right? If you are a good little pirate and stayed away from that DRM bag of hurt, you would be fine, right?
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